No good deed goes unpunished. What they get for trying to save Manning.
Via Daily Wire:
Chelsea Manning is complaining that police searched her Montgomery County apartment on a wellness check after she sent two Tweets appearing to threaten suicide because the police conducted the “wellness check” while armed.
Montgomery County says they received several calls from individuals concerned that Manning was suicidal, after Manning posted a photo showing what appeared to be a pair of pedicured feet dangling several stories about the street below. At least one caller either confirmed or provided an address, the Intercept says, and County officials dispatched officers for a “wellness check.”
Private security camera footage, provided by Manning to the Intercept, shows three officers entering the apartment with guns drawn after knocking, announcing their presence, and opening the locked door with a key they reportedly obtained from building management. The officers call Manning’s name several times while clearing rooms.
Although it’s very clear from the footage that the officers had no idea what to expect when they entered Manning’s apartment — and that the crew had no idea whether Manning would be armed and dangerous, even if she were only dangerous to herself — Manning called the video evidence that Americans live in a “police state.”
“This is what a police state looks like,” Manning told the Intercept. “Guns drawn during a ‘wellness’ check.”